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John Flaxman RA (1755 - 1826), sculptor

Model of a Design for a Monument intended to have been erected to the Memory of the late Right Honble. William Pitt

Plaster

Height: 56cm
Width: 27cm
Depth: 25cm

Museum number: SC41

On display: Staircase - first to second floor (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house. For tours https://www.soane.org/your-visit

Curatorial note

The monument to William Pitt the Younger in Westminster Abbey was commissioned from Sir Richard Westmacott, rather than Flaxman, at a cost of £6,300.

Literature

Helen Dorey ‘Soane and Flaxman’ in Flaxman: Master of the Purest Line, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum 2003


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